News from Bangalore…

Yes! I am in India. After leaving home on Saturday 9am, I landed in Bangalore at 5:00am local time, meaning 0:30 french’ one. What to say? Well, my suitase was still in London, I was afraid to face the same situation then last April in California where I received it 5 days later. Anyhow, you pass the passport control, you pass the customs and you are out.
First thing interesting, you have hundred of people outside the airport waiting but between the gate and the exit only few people are allowed. They are working for the main hotels in the neighborhood arranging transportation for the customers.
Mine was not planned, so the guy called one of his buddies cab driver to take me to my hotel. I had to get some cash before hand… but what was the change? I took out 10.000 Indian Rupees and hope for the best. The 30 min drive cost me 1100 INR, around 16 euros. Finally, in my room at 6:30am, I went to bed and woke up at 3pm. Couple of emails later, I went for lunch in my hotel, they have great pub and back to bed by 10pm to try to adjust with the TZ.
First day at work, I went from 1 office to the other taking the company shuttle… I was scared all the way. Indian driving is rather particular, they need the horn. I felt we would have killed hunder of people on the way. We took unsane u-turns on busy roads, fighting with cows to cross. So the myth about cows in the street… so TRUE. I have seen it.
Up to now, I am having a great time, even with spicy food for breakfast at 9am.

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Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Back in Marseille for the week end, we are partying another time for my mam birthday. She was 60 this year and this is the 3rd party we do. First one, small on the day, then 2 weeks ago with neighbours (difficult one ending up wasted) and tomorrow with familly… That is the plan. Today I spend it with the Fack and his kids. We spent hours in the 31°C swimming pool… Other than that, I had booked weeks ago Super Smash Bros. Brawl so I spend a couple of hours on my WII fighting like hell. They are many moves to learn, it is not like Tekken or traditionnal fighting game…

I find it awesome! From IGN: "Super Smash Bros. Brawl is a brawling, battling, action-packed video game that features a varied roster of characters for four-player simultaneous melees! Use your Wii Remote and Nunchuck controls to deal serious damage to your opponents and win the game! This Wii entry in the popular series features a number of new additions, including an Adventure Mode (with co-op play), a wealth of new characters and stages, and online combat for multiple players to face off against each other from anywhere!"

Last week end I was Mario Kart Wii with Binome…(sorry Bi!)… Nintendo rocks.

Even so, I will like to make a note here.. RESIDENT EVIL is MY GAME!

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What was the fun?

Not a lot of time to catch up with the blog, so before going to bed… I promise myself to write something. So here it comes… sorry Alex, it might be short once again.

Here we go with the fun:

• paintball

I had played paintball once, I thing I remember driving my ford fiesta, so it was 13 years ago. 6 friends renting all the needed gear going at night in a hill and roll! It was fun, just between friend. We end up with 2 injuries, lots of bruises and cover by paint. My friend Ced just had learnt on that night never to remove your face protection when playing paintball. His lips trippled the size for over a week as I can recall. I remember that we did not want to go to a special place…afraid to be bored by the rules. So that time in Paris, I had my first experience in a real park with everything needed for the fun. And it really was. Once again, I was amoung friends, which is the key element for me. I enjoyed it because I was a game, not war. Just about the fun until my so called friend shoot me down in the back, 2 min after giving him some extra shells!

• indoor skydiving

Back in July 14th 199X, the JFnR team went to the Alps for a crazy week end. I was the summer, we went skying, then cycling, then back to Tallard to sky dive. I was my first time (and only time) and it was great. Not that I will do it again. Jumping from the plane at 4000m, opening the parachute at 1000m and starting breathing again. How could I forget. Anyway the 3000m drop at full spead (250km/h) last for a bit more than 1minute.

The landing was not that great, I had some scars…  so it was like, I did it, ok what is next. This time I went for an indoor jump. The 2:30 minutes of happyness equal more or less to 2 jumps from a plane without the stress.

Humm not really as you can see on the pics. We are quite concentrated on what is going on.

It was real good, but enough I let you watch my video!

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A Weekend in Paris

A great title for a great week end… I am late in my S.M.A.R.T. objectives plan… but as they say in Greece, "ti na kanoume?". So I am late on my "1 post a week" plan but I will certainly catch up on that.

What is new? Plenty new softwares I have been using,  plenty new pictures I need to upload and a video. I will write a different post on each but here is the plan:

• Software
  • Inquisitor
  • Qumana
  • schemaspy
• Fun
  • Paintball
  • Indoor sky diving

I just want to thanks Mr and Mrs Binome for this great week end

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